About

Marsha Redmon

Marsha Redmon is a former practicing lawyer and television journalist who has been helping lawyers get the business and recognition they want through business development, communications and media interview workshops and coaching for the last 11 years.

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Marsha Redmon  is a former practicing attorney and award-winning journalist who specializes in teaching lawyers, executives and scientists how to communicate most effectively with clients, the media and each other.  Marsha’s expertise is in taking complex issues and helping her clients tell the stories behind them.

For the last 11 years, Marsha has coached lawyers and other professionals to get the business and recognition they want through presentation skills, pitch coaching, business development, media interview and messaging workshops. As a former lawyer, Marsha understands the concerns and special considerations important for lawyers who talk to the media.

Marsha won the 2008 Legal Marketing Association’s Your Honor Award for Training – for a communications training program using video vignettes that demonstrate how lawyers “should not” present in business development settings.

Marsha’s experience spans broadcast news reporting, law and graduate level teaching.  She was an award-winning consumer and investigative reporter on television.  Her on-air news career spanned ten years in television and radio in major markets.

She also practiced law at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Mazzarella Dunwoody.  Marsha was a faculty member of the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, where she taught Business Communications to MBA students full-time for two years.

Marsha has authored numerous articles on using media interviews and presentations for business development as well as other business communication topics for print and Web publications including: Legal Times; The Washington Business Journal; Strategies: The Journal of Legal Marketing; Law.com; Of Counsel; and T & D, the American Society of Training & Development magazine.

She is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of San Diego School of Law and a cum laude graduate of Wheaton College with a degree in Speech Communication.  Marsha may be reached directly at:  mredmon [at] marsha [dot] com or at 202.251.3390.